He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief… All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

I was becoming post-ideological.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Let go of yesterday.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

What is true belongs to me!

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I think and that is all that I am.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.

My mother did not like children.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

I love money because I’ve earned it. I won sixty G’s with my first knockout – and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.